Neapolitan Pleasure Party painting, Naples, Italy
Category
Photographs
Date
1883 - 1888
Materials
Paper
Measurements
187 x 253 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520697.26
Summary
An albumen print photograph of a painting in the museum at Naples, Italy.The print depicts a horse and cart which is overcrowded with men, women and children, and a priest holding an open umberella. The print is mounted onto a white stiff card page on the lefthand side within an album. The photograph is in landscape format and has diagonally cut corners. Markings: Bottom of the page, below the photograph, handwritten in ink and underlined, are the words: 'Neapolitan Pleasure Party'
Provenance
part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986